Bottle dump finding tactics and crap you find in the woods.

[gleaner1]

Rule #1: Bottle dumps are almost everywhere.

Probes are good......for finding privies. Bottle dumps often have surface evidence such as old baked enamal kitcheware and broken crockery and glass. You can spot these dumps easily. But so can everyone else. Many dumps are flat, and others have little hills or piles scattered about.

Really old dumps or dumps in swamps may have very little visual evidence of their existence. They are difficult to see. But that's okay, most of the time a good bottle dump has plenty of metal in it such as barrel hoops, cast iron stove parts, machine parts, old shovels and tools, wire, cans, and a bit of copper and brass. Which is good. Nobody has found it yet, but you will, with a cheap metal detector. Good diggin's await you.

I have added pics of some of my surface finds while looking for dumps.

[taz42o]

That old hound dog is very nice.
I knew I wasnt the only one keepin genny brewing in business.
Is that an ice cube tray?

[gleaner1]

The hound dog is a 50-lb concrete casting with re-bar in it. It's a newer piece, but I found it in the area of my favorite old dump site. The feet and ears and tail were all terribly broken, but I liked it and restored it. I have about 40 hours labor and $80 worth of epoxy putty into it. Much sculpting and guesswork to get it right. Primer and glaze putty to finish. I was thinking about making a master mold from it so I can cast more of them for sale. Someday I'll have a good artist paint it to look like a blue-tick.

The "ice tray" is a cast iron dinner roll pan. Old beer cans are hard to find in the woods, especially in my area, but when we find them, they are pretty well rusted, and a lot of times, they are good ol' Gennies.